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Habakkuk 2:17-19
Evangelical Heritage Version
Habakkuk 2:17-19
Evangelical Heritage Version
17 You will be overwhelmed by the violence you have committed against Lebanon. Your devastation of the animals will terrify you,[a] because you shed human blood and did violence to the land, to the town, and to its inhabitants.
18 What benefit is provided by a carved idol? It was hewn by its maker. What good is a cast statue? It teaches lies. Why would the maker trust his own creation? He makes useless gods that cannot speak. 19 Woe to him who says to a hunk of wood, “Wake up!” or who says, “Get up!” to a stone that cannot speak. Can that thing be your teacher? Although it is covered with gold and silver, there is no life in it at all.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:17 The Hebrew literally reads and the violence against the animals [which] he terrified. The translation above follows the Greek.
Habakkuk 2:17-19
New International Version
Habakkuk 2:17-19
New International Version
17 The violence(A) you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
and your destruction of animals will terrify you.(B)
For you have shed human blood;(C)
you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
18 “Of what value(D) is an idol(E) carved by a craftsman?
Or an image(F) that teaches lies?
For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;
he makes idols that cannot speak.(G)
19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’
Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’(H)
Can it give guidance?
It is covered with gold and silver;(I)
there is no breath in it.”(J)
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